Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Three

Yang Sitong's eyes widened, and she stood in front of her crazy father, no, it would be better to say that she was standing next to her mother's dead body, she was terrified, her lackluster face suddenly turned deathly gray due to the all-night lewd and entertainment life. She screamed terribly and couldn't stop screaming. "Sitong, listen to me." Yang Yuhua was completely at a loss. His daughter was the only relative he cared about in his life, and his fatal weakness. He couldn't lose his daughter's love. "Sitong!" "Don't come here! Don't come here!" Yang Sitong frantically ran upstairs, she shouted desperately while running, Yang Yuhua couldn't hear what her daughter was shouting, but he knew that in her brain, this At this moment, it should be blank.I couldn't explain it to her, even if I explained it to her, my daughter might not be able to understand it, after all, she saw her father disposing of her mother's body with her own eyes.Whether her daughter can forgive herself is no longer important, what is important is that she has to face the "life in exile".

He sighed... Suddenly, Yang Yuhua's heart tightened, because he clearly heard the sound of a large truck driving into the yard of the Yang family.He had a premonition that something was going wrong, and someone was going to "drive the dog into a poor alley". Yang Yuhua hurriedly looked through the curtains of the living room. The servant who watched the door was talking and negotiating with a female officer. A large group of detectives had already jumped off the truck and drove straight in. He didn't see Yang Muchi's figure. The living room was scarlet, and the yard was noisy.

Too late to clean. If he does not escape at this moment and captures him alive on the spot, Yang Yuhua will be charged with killing his wife. This alone is enough to kill. Yang Yuhua ran away. He fled in a hurry through a narrow gate in the back garden. The Huamei Bookstore is very quiet. Due to the lack of customers, Ronggui, who is in charge of the business, is listlessly standing on the cabinet with his hands crossed over his shoulders. Wisps of sunlight come in from the window, and the cold thick wooden bookshelves are warm. The image of the owner is very decadent, and the entire bookstore is very gray, and the books on the shelves are also very listless. It seems that what fills the study room is not the faint smell of ink, but the depressing smell of damp old books.

An elegant-looking female student was holding a blue embroidered schoolbag in her hand, standing by the bookshelf and reading a book obsessively. She had been reading for a long time, and she had no intention of buying or leaving. She kept silently, Standing there leisurely reading a book, Rong Gui looked up from time to time, and the woman sometimes flipped through the books on the shelf. "Do you need my help?" Rong Gui couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to use this to intervene with this girl who read books for nothing, even if she felt embarrassed, she would buy a copy anyway.

"Thank you." The female student put down the book in her hand very steadily, and Rong Gui looked at it. The slightly curled cover of the book was titled: "Alice's Adventures in Adventures" English Edition. "Miss likes this book?" Ronggui said. "Just looking at it. How much is the book?" "One yuan and fifty cents." Rong Gui said. "If you like it, why not buy it." "But, you, the inserts in your book are very blurry, look." The woman rubbed the pages of the book with her hands, looking very reluctant. "Not every book printed on such a hand-etched copper plate is clear and readable." A steady and dull voice floated over, and Rong Sheng walked in at some time, his tone was not high, It was very slow and gentle, and it was like explaining for Rong Gui.

"But, but I don't have enough money." "Oh, how short are you?" Rong Sheng asked. "I only have fifty cents on me." The female student lowered her head. Rong Sheng smiled, and said to Rong Gui: "Wrap it for Miss, I bought it for her." He took out two yuan from his pocket, and was about to hand it to Rong Gui, but the female student blushed and waved her hand. Said: "I don't want it anymore." Put down the book in a panic, and walked out as if fleeing.Because she walked too hastily, she was not careful to bump into a new guest at the door.Hearing "Ouch", Rong Sheng looked towards the door. The blue embroidered schoolbag turned over and jumped in the door. It can be seen that the female student fell hard.

Both Rongsheng and Ronggui walked towards the door of the bookstore. When Rongsheng raised his head, he was stunned. In front of him was a gorgeously dressed young woman, frowning, holding on to her left arm. She lightly blamed the female student for walking so carelessly, and the female student said: I'm sorry, and ran away in a hurry. That young woman is none other than He Yashu. The ex-lover met face to face, looking around, Yashu's energy and blood suddenly stopped flowing, and she looked extremely embarrassed. She was promoted very generously, and he took the initiative to say hello.

"Long time no see." "Yes." Yashu was very embarrassed and unnatural. Judging by his attire, he must have caught a "golden turtle", Rong Sheng thought to himself. "Come to buy books? Let's see if I can help you." Rong Sheng said. "Thank you, I'll buy some books for my husband." Yashu said calmly. "What book do you want to buy? This way please." Ronggui happily led the customers into the store. Rong Sheng watched Ya Shu enter the shop, she was still graceful and luxurious, her demeanor was refined, she not only lost the pretentiousness of the day, but also added a little bit of charm.

He looked down and saw the blue embroidered schoolbag on the forgotten threshold, he picked up the schoolbag, and the earthy fragrance of fresh flowers exuded from the schoolbag, he was very surprised. Rongsheng opened the schoolbag, and there was a notebook inside, with a silk cover, on which was written: "Mingxuan" in a pen, and a business card slipped out of the notebook: Chen's Greenhouse, Order Flowers, Send Flower Baskets. He heard Ronggui laughing at the customers in the bookstore, put his business card in his pocket casually, walked in the door again, saw Yashu sitting on a chair gracefully, Ronggui ran back and forth to pick up books from the book list, he was too busy Very happy.

Rong Sheng felt very uncomfortable. He thought, a man is really a strange animal. It is obviously an "ornament" that he gave up voluntarily. Why, once this "ornament" is put on other men, he seems to be unable to let go of his throat. The chest also felt a little congested, and the sour gas came out from the tip of the nose. ""General Literature and History", "Travel Notes in 1769", "Plato's Philosophy of Spirit", "Aspects of Social Improvement", "European Woodblock Printing Album", oh, there is also a newly arrived "Western Learning Expo", Take a look, is it complete? There is still one Russell's "Philosophy of Arithmetic", I wrote down the title of the book, I will have it another day, and I will keep it for you." Rong Gui laughed with him, very enthusiastic.

"Thank you. Last time Mr. Liang Qichao's book..." "You mean the "Between the Three Realms of Literature and Wildness", right? It's out of stock recently, how about this, you can pay a yuan in advance, and when the book arrives, I will personally deliver it to the house along with "Philosophy of Arithmetic and Logic"." "Okay, I'll leave you an address and phone number." Yashu stood up. Ronggui hurriedly delivered the paper and pen, Yashu weighed the thin letterhead to write on the palm of her hand, but couldn't do it, Ronggui immediately took a book for her to write. After writing down the address and phone number, Yashu handed the letterhead to Ronggui, and suddenly found that the book in her hand was "Yuefu". She opened the title page, and there was a quote from "Eighteen Songs of Naoge·Shangxie". Trembling, I made a decision in my heart. "Please, wrap up this book too, and deliver it to No. 18, Changle Street before five o'clock this afternoon, and I will pay you double," Yashu said. "Thank you. I will definitely deliver it on time." Rong Gui promised. Rong Sheng was very suspicious. He thought he understood Ya Shu's preferences better. Those books were not what Ya Shu liked to read, but rather... a bright smile like Ah Chu's sunshine faintly appeared in his mind. His eyes deliberately lowered to the thin book list, and the familiar and smooth handwriting almost broke into his eyes in a ostentatious and ostentatious manner, and he told himself accurately that Yashu's man was Ah Chu. Incredible. For a moment, salty, sour, cold and warm welled up in his heart, almost unable to suppress the turmoil in Rongsheng's heart.His face was ugly, as if he had just swallowed a piece of crisp and hard thin ice, which was cool, slippery and had an indescribable taste. At this time, Ronggui seemed to sense the unhappiness in his elder brother's heart. He thought he was greeting the guests and treated the god slowly, so he hurried over to apologize. "Brother, I have already packed the "Chu Ci Xiao Su" and "The Book of Songs" that you asked for last time. Do you want to take them with you? Or should I send them to you at night?" "Take it, you are tired enough, you don't need to run around." Rong Sheng said something compassionate, and Rong Gui happily agreed. Ya Shu finished buying books, came out of the bookstore, and waved for a rickshaw. Rongsheng almost came out with Yashu, and he saw Ah Chu.Bewildered more and more. Because Ah Chu was wearing a neat German military uniform and was riding in a military jeep.Ah Chu also saw Rong Sheng at about the same time, he was slightly taken aback, then looked away like a stranger, started the jeep calmly, followed Ya Shu's rickshaw unhurriedly, and drove past Young Master Rong's eyes. He didn't say hello, didn't look at his old owner, and didn't even bother to get out of the car, just swaggering away.Rong Sheng only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and he thought he had been deliberately slighted. "A small man succeeds," he said. "Brother." Ronggui was in a hurry to send him out, and he also saw Ah Chu. Although he was a little puzzled, he didn't feel much. "Did you recognize the wrong person?" "Do you think I'll admit him wrong?" Rong Sheng sneered. "But he drives a military car." Rong Sheng stopped talking, not because he hesitated in his own judgment, but because he wondered why Ya Shu and Ah Chu left one after the other? Not quite normal. There was a rapid ringing of the phone. A white hand picked up the phone. "Hey?" "The fish bit the hook." "What fish?" "shark." "Where's the flounder?" "Stock Exchange." "Continue to monitor." The phone hangs up. The chiming clock in the living room rang, and the hour hand pointed to half past three... At the same time, a black car slowly drove into a quiet house, No. 18 Changle Street, which was the house that Han Zhengqi first found for Ah Chu. It was a distance from the city, and the advantage was that there was no hustle and bustle and no staying up all night. Open restaurants and hotels.Ah Chu hasn't come here for a while. Since he moved to Plum Blossom Lane, he has come here intermittently to drink the soup stewed by Grandma Yue. Every time, Grandma Yue called him to go, but today is special, Ah Chu is very early in the morning So I called in person, saying that I wanted to drink the porridge made by Yue Mama, and I would go home in the afternoon when I was free. Mother Yue was very happy, and bought a lot of ingredients, such as lotus seeds, longan, lily, and jujube, which filled the stove. She was always busy in the kitchen, and the fragrant lotus seed and longan porridge was delicious. "Sir is back." Yue Yue, who heard the footsteps, greeted her into the living room with a pleasant face. Liu Ahsi was serving Ah Chu to take off his leather jacket.Ah Chu looked extremely tired, yawning, looking tired.However, his hair seemed to have just been combed, it was very neat, and there were still water droplets on the hair. "Sir, have you washed your hair too much?" Mother Yue asked. "Ah." Ah Chu responded, and slowly turned around. "I don't know what happened recently. I sleep very well. No matter where I lean, I will fall asleep in a daze. I was sleepy just now, so I just washed my hair to refresh myself." He wore a pair of cloth shoes under his feet, which was made by Yue Mama herself. The upper surface of the shoes was embroidered with snow scenes of Jiangmei. Although it was rustic, it was also very unique.It's just that the ice and snow plum blossoms on Ah Chu's shoe today seem to be a little swollen. "Sir, your feet?" Mother Yue bent down to look with concern. "It's okay, it's okay." Ah Chu was a little embarrassed. "Didn't I say I was sleepy? I fell at the gate of the stock exchange." "Is it great?" "It's okay, it's okay." "Sir, let me help you in and sit down." Liu Ah Si said. "No need, there is Yuemao, you go, I will call you when I have something to do." Ah Chu naturally stretched out his hand and put it on Yuemao's shoulder. Mother Yue quickly reached out to help Ah Chu's waist, and helped him to sit down.Liu Ahsi turned around and went out, closing the door behind him. "Mother Yue." Ah Chu said. "How old are you this year?" "I am the young lady's nurse, the eldest wife's dowry maid, and this year, I am sixty-two years old." "Sixty-two? You've worked hard all your life, haven't you ever thought about going back to your hometown for the elderly?" Mother Yue laughed. "I am a child of a family, where are my relatives, my hometown?" "I'm sorry, it's my fault." Ah Chu seemed to want to stand up, but fell into the sofa again.He was very irritable, suppressed his emotions, coughed a few times, and said, "Mother Yue, I want to have some porridge. Please." "Okay, sir, wait a minute." Mother Yue went briskly. Ah Chu tilted his head on the sofa, and the lotus lantern hanging from the ceiling of the living room projected the soft light on Ah Chu's face without hesitation. When Ah Chu enjoyed the dreamlike light and shadow, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Mother Yue walked up to Ah Chu with the carefully prepared "Lotus Seed and Longan Porridge". Ah Chu still closed his eyes and rested his mind. "Sir, let's have some porridge," Yue Momo said. "Thank you." Ah Chu opened his dim eyes, saw the steaming bowl of porridge, and he stretched out his hands to take it. Mother Yue sat down beside him. "Sir, are you tired?" "Yes." Ah Chu replied while drinking porridge. The heat of the lotus seed and longan porridge rose into misty white smoke, and Ah Chu felt a little dazed.From a trance, he seemed to see a shiny wooden talisman, less than 10 centimeters away from himself. He was very surprised, how could the wooden talisman have such a wonderful luster?He couldn't help himself to stare at the shiny object dangling in front of him. The shiny wooden talisman was like a magnet, and Ah Chu was like an iron filing, and he was firmly attracted.He felt that the surroundings were extremely quiet, his eyes were blurred, and his mind was blank. "Sir, there's nothing here to disturb you...you can't hear anything but my voice and the ticking of the clock...can you, sir?" "Yes." Ah Chu replied. "Did you feel anything?" "Very warm." "Do you mean physical sensations?" "yes." The person answering the question is in a state of stillness, while the person asking the question is in a guiding state. The mysterious air permeates every corner of the living room, and an ordinary wooden talisman conveys information strangely.It seems to form a third kind of space, boundless and illusory. "A Chu" was "successfully" hypnotized. Because it is not the first time that hypnosis is successful, the hypnotist has full confidence and patience. "Do you need me?" A warm woman's hand held Ah Chu's. "I need help." Ah Chu's hands were limp, without strength. "I will help you," said the woman. "Do you still have nightmares at night?" "Yes, a very scary dream, the sound of shovels, the sound of water, lingering, I want to catch him, but it is fleeting." "Maybe it's a dream from a previous life." "The sky is low. The water is flowing, flowing." "Can you see the color of the water?" "It's dirty, like an ink stain, the juice of squid dropped into the canister of rotten oranges, cloudy, the liquid is very thick." "Is it windy?" "The wind is very strong. The sound of the shovel has not stopped, and the frequency of the sound is very fast." "The sound of the shovel is the focus of your nightmares. It is actually very easy to get rid of him. I will help you, don't let the nightmare take you back, don't force yourself to recall the past twenty years ago, even if the memory fragments float in front of you, It can only mean that the evil is still spreading, it will unconsciously evoke the pain in your body, eliminate it, eliminate the memory fragments in your brain, and try to clear it." "How to clear it?" "Forget it, follow me, you will forget all your troubles, and you will know some other secrets..." "secret?" "Yes, you have to beware of the people around you. Every one of them is plotting against you secretly. Your brother is very dangerous. You have to try to stay away from him, even though it is painful for you to be away from your family. You have to trust the people around you woman." "all?" "Of course a woman will keep you from sin." "Xu Yuzhen? Fake mother?" "Of course she must die, don't let her go. She once cut your own mother in half, that skeleton, remember?" "Remember." "That skeleton was young." "Really? At that time, I felt something was wrong." "It's enough for you to remember that the skeleton is your mother." "Okay." Ah Chu became more and more mechanical. "Forget about nightmares, the sound of your shovel doesn't exist at all, it's virtual, it's an illusion." "It's an illusion." "You want to take this opportunity to go to the beach to set off a bloodbath and kill a group of people." "who?" "Those who hurt you and your father back then, you have to be ruthless. In the future, you will have a very good future." "I don't want to kill any more." "Take your time, you will get used to it. I will guide you slowly, you have to trust me absolutely, every time you hold my hand, you will feel very warm." "yes." "Are my hands warm?" "Not only is it warm, but I feel that the skin texture is very delicate." Ah Chu's voice suddenly became very strange. "Mother Yue, your real age is only in your forties, right? It seems that I'm right." Nanny Yue opened her mouth wide, laughing for a while, and then smirking with a simple and honest look, her ugly eyelids were sunken by the laughter. "Sir, you? Are you awake? You were dreaming just now." Yue Nanny's hand was still holding Ah Chu's hand calmly. "Okay." Ah Chu stood up, his eyes were like lightning. "You are really capable. It shouldn't be the first time. You are good at hypnosis. When will you teach me?" Mother Yue's face darkened. "Stand still!" Yue Momo took out a pistol. Ah Chu stood upright without moving a muscle. "Mother Yue, if you want to kill me, the crimes of more than twenty years will be in vain?" "Don't forget, I still have a weight in my hand, Rong Chu. He can completely replace you and cover me." "Rong'er?" Ah Chu laughed wantonly. "Do you think he has this ability? Why don't you continue to cooperate with me? I believe that you will achieve your original intention. If you want to fake 'Xu Yuzhen' to die so much, you must hate her. You should be Japanese. Right? Live in Edo, right?" "How do you know?" Yue Momo's face became even more tense and distorted. "Jiangmei snow scene, very similar to the scenery on the top of Mount Fuji." Ah Chu suddenly spoke Japanese. "It's snowing on the top of Mt. Fuji, and this scene belongs to Edo." He pointed to the pattern on the upper of the shoe. "You, who are you?" "Ask more." "Aren't you Yang Muchu?!" Yue Nanny's voice was sharp and piercing. "Are you looking for me?" The door of the living room opened, and Yang Muchu, who was wearing a neat military uniform, stood at the door. Mother Yue turned her head in horror, Yang Muchi, who was pretending to be Ah Chu, quickly struck out, deftly knocking out the gun in her hand, and subdued Mother Yue. "You guys? How did you know? How did you know?!" Yue Yue, who was crushed to the ground, howled desperately, very unwilling. "Calm down, calm down." Muci handcuffed her as quickly as possible. "Keep a professional demeanor." He picked up the pistol on the ground, and threw Yue Yue onto the sofa forcefully. "How are you?" Ah Chu walked in and asked. "Your shoes are one size too small, they don't fit me, my feet hurt like hell." Muci said as he jumped. Ah Chu smiled reservedly. "You acted well." Ah Chu said. "Thank you." Yang Muci still pointed his gun at Yuemao.Said: "Chinese is not bad, very fluent." "No wonder, no wonder..." Mother Yue struggled to say. "No wonder, you need to take a bath." "He smells of smoke." Ah Chu explained lightly. "You know, I don't smoke." "You? How did you know? How did you know?" Mother Yue asked the same sentence repeatedly while she was dying. "There is an old saying in China: If you want people not to know, you have to do nothing. Yue Yue, you should be regarded as a Chinese expert, and you should understand this truth. You are eager for success, make fatal mistakes, and you keep giving I gave hypnotizing medicine, you forgot, I am a doctor, an excellent doctor." Ah Chu said. "You often ask Liu Ahsi to take you to Plum Blossom Lane, and teach Yashu the so-called "royal husband" way. In fact, you have ulterior motives. The purpose of you teaching her to make medicinal food is to make me feel safe no matter where I am. To be able to 'take the medicine' on time so that you can hypnotize me whenever you get the chance." "During the whole process of hypnosis, you will reproduce the pre-designed situation, and you will impose some kind of 'hint' you need on the hypnotized person. Just like what you said to me just now, you step by step, Lead me into a trap." Muci said. "Even if I gave you some hypnotic food and it didn't harm your body, how would you know that I'm Japanese?" Mother Yue obviously refused to admit defeat. "It's very simple, your movements, your hands are often stacked in front of you, your waist bends in an arc unconsciously, your steps are broken, but very rhythmic." Muci said with a smile. "Just based on these? So, what about 'Xu Yuzhen'?" "Speaking of conscience, she is better than you at this point." Mu Ci said. "You performed very well, and you almost succeeded." Ah Chu took over the conversation. "You are calm on the outside, and you don't care about anything. In fact, you are extremely anxious inside. You don't want to be in a passive position all the time. You want to control the overall situation, so you are willing to take risks and hypnotize me. You are well aware of the tragic disaster that night twenty years ago, and you participated in the conspiracy, but you are passive, and your face is the best proof. I believe that no woman is willing to ruin her appearance into a monster. You have always stood on the edge of danger, you play with fire, and your hypnotism is handy. Your brilliance lies in the fact that when you 'arrange' my memory fragments, you have both fiction and reality. Illusions are the most unrestricted by people. You can calmly use secret language to distort the remaining memories in my mind without leaving any traces. I don’t know that ‘things must be reversed’, and fragments of memory can’t be imposed too much. How can a piece of spring You can stretch thousands of streams, your biggest failure is that you try to lead me down a narrow path, when you reduce the age of a skeleton from forty to twenty, when you succeed by psychological suggestion You start to make mistakes when it gets to my brain. Because, I'm a doctor. I admit, when I first saw this skeleton, I didn't think about it at all, I just assumed she was my 'dead mother ', my subconscious actively cooperated with your hypnosis. In essence, when I calm down and go back and forth again, the bone age cannot deceive people. I have come to a clear conclusion that the actual age of this woman who was brutally cut in half She is over forty years old, so she should be the mother-in-law who was killed 20 years ago. The only thing I can't figure out...is why you tried to get rid of the 'fake Xu Yuzhen' in every possible way? Why? Didn't you two come from the same boat? " Mother Yue was completely paralyzed. "I always thought that I could become the flower of the empire, and I always thought that I was a time bomb buried deepest." "You are a ticking time bomb, but we dismantled it on time. Your power and destructiveness have been minimized," Ah Chu said. "Now, I would like you to tell me your real name, why did you enter the Yang family with all your heart and soul? What is your purpose? Where is my mother's remains?" "Do you think I'll tell you?" "Will do." "why?" "I have an expert in extorting confessions by torture." Ah Chu folded his arms and looked at Mu Ci with a quiet expression. "I'm a woman, a woman with no strength to restrain a chicken." The corners of Yue Momo's mouth curled up in contempt. "In order to achieve your own evil goals, you extend your hateful claws to innocent women and children, and treat human life as worthless! Killing women and children is like chickens and dogs! You are no longer a human being, but a beast! I have nothing to worry about about beasts." Ah First said. "Ah Ci, I'll leave it to you, your strength." Mother Yue began to tremble. Muci coughed loudly. "Mother Yue, I advise you to tell the truth. If I do it, all the big pot of porridge you cooked will be poured into your lungs. If you don't want to, I don't want to either." Muci started to take out rubber gloves from his pocket, he put them on slowly, picked up half a bowl of leftover soup, and said, "Do you want to warm up first?" Ah Chu turned his back, he probably didn't like the scene of torture to extract a confession. Mu Ci grabbed the woman's throat with all his strength, and Yue Yuma's eyeballs almost burst, and she gasped for breath.Muci loosened and tightened his fingers, tightened and loosened again, and made a gesture to pour down half a bowl of porridge, and Yue Yumo cried out in despair. "I can't tell you all..."